Prison is a State of Mind…

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WHAT IF you woke up this morning and could not remember anything negative from your past? WHAT IF when you awoke you were told you were one of those rare individuals who had endured much but who had overcome all obstacles and was now an example of the best the human race could possibly become?

WHAT IF when you heard this – that you had diligently dedicated yourself to being the best person possible – WHAT IF you did not doubt, nor did you waiver in assuming this new identity?

INSTANT LIFE CHANGE

If you truly believed this, a powerful mental shift would occur that would change everything for as long as you lived. Instantly, and without question, your reaction to life’s inevitable irritations would alter. Your perceptions of others would become more compassionate and the words you spoke would be more encouraging than victimization, damning or filled with blame.

When caught in the quagmire of human weakness, we all are less than our best. We point the finger, find blame, and confabulate excuses for our own inadequacies and wrongdoings.

REMEMBERING IS CHOICE

When we awake each morning, we have the choice to remember or to forget those things no longer serving our efforts to find our freedom from drama and anguish. We can LET GO of being upset with circumstance, irritation at our spouse, disliking our boss, the inevitable familial struggles, or our concerns for our economy or government. In truth, we do not need to carry around on our weary backs those things in our daily life that serve to dismantle our efforts to find the internal freedom which comes when we turn our individual focus to becoming a very good human.

What we remember each morning, or choose to remember when we awake, is entirely up to each individual. Our focus – those things on which we place our mental attention- is our critical choice as the determining factor in our level of internal freedom.

YOUR MAGNIFICENT BRAIN

Your brain is at your command. It is yours to train, to exercise, to guide and to control. The problem is, we are not taught this as children. We are taught to rely on parents, teachers, peers, neighbors, media and government to make things better for us, that we are somehow incapable of being our own boss.

The truth of the matter is each one of us is in the driver’s seat of our life experience. What we choose to do with our 80-somehting years is more under our control than we would like to conveniently believe. It is much more convenient and consistent with our training to believe the control lies outside of ourselves.

We can, however, begin to train the neurons in our brain – those messengers assigned the task of moving data from one part of the brain to the next – to get excited about a new way of thinking, eventually altering our very life experiences, our habits, our likes and dislikes, and even elements of our personality we may believe are unchangeable.

Fact: We can train our brain, much like we can train a puppy. We can train our brain to understand when to sit still, when to bark, and when to roll over. Our brain is our very own puppy to train, or to let roam wild causing havoc and creating a mess we eventually blame on the puppy.

WHAT IF?

WHAT IF we begin to let our past, our parents, our enemies, our teachers, or our economy off the hook? WHAT IF we stated, “I am BOSS OF MY BRAIN!”

WHAT IF we declared that no one and nothing was in control of our thoughts and opinions? WHAT IF we truly believed we could pick and choose those things we want to have bouncing around in our brain, those thoughts taking up valuable space and energy?

GOOD MORNING

Well. Wake up. Good morning, I say to you. You have a new puppy in your hands. It’s yours brain to train any way you see fit.

Good morning, I say to you. The facts about you will never alter. You are a dear, wonderful, and powerful human, no matter what you have experienced or chosen to believe. You are born of a lineage of creators, and a species that has the capacity for greatness and goodness, miracle making and magic.

This is your life to create from this day forward as you take control of your reactions and perceptions to life’s unfairness and inevitable obstacles. It is your day to create your opinions just as you see fit. You can carry a heavy burden of human errors of the past, or you can embrace the concept that the weight of the past no longer serves you.

YOU ARE THE BOSS

In reading this, you are now in charge. You have the permission; you always have had the permission, but now you really have it tossed in your lap. And your new puppy needs feeding.

You need nothing more than this simple knowledge to make this very day one filled with example after example of how you are training your brain to respond to your wishes, not the other way around.

FACTS

Fact: You are more magnificent that you believe; you just have been hiding under a big sack of unnecessary history.

Fact: You are more talented that you can possibly realize; you have just been handcuffed by shame, doubt and the scripts told to you by others.

Fact: You are more than capable; you have just been burdened with unnecessary chatter bouncing around in your head and keeping you stuck, immobile and frozen in place, waiting for some external miracle to make things better for you.

GOOD MORNING!

Well, all I can say is, GOOD MORNING. Wake up. The puppy needs feeding and it needs a good, solid instruction on how to obey its owner – you. Today, nothing from the past can hold you back or clutter the path to your progress unless you permit it to remain there.

It’s time to find your freedom and that journey begins by you asking yourself “WHAT IF I am not my past? WHAT IF I truly am in control of this thing called life?”

Get your puppy chow ready. That brain of yours needs to know who is in charge.